In the meeting, the cabinet secretary pressed into service all the forces – Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, National Disaster Response Force and other central armed police forces (CAPFs) and directed that all possible assistance be provided to Kerala for relief and rescue operations.
Author: PTI
Suspecting corruption amid complaints of delay in releasing payments to contractors and suppliers, anti-graft watchdog CVC has asked all central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) to examine such bills and send a report over pendency.
As part of its crackdown on misuse of social media, the government has started an advocacy drive based on ‘learning material’ offered by WhatsApp to create awareness among students, government officials and others around the issue of fake news.
New Delhi: Twelve fresh teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been rushed by the Centre today to rain-battered Kerala.
he Telecom Commission, apex decision making body at the telecom department, is likely to meet on 31 August to discuss Trai’s recommendation on spectrum allocation, according to official sources.
New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi today and requested him to increase the deployment of Army and Navy in flood-hit Kerala and give special financial assistance to the state.
New Delhi: A special court today framed an additional charge of abetment of bribery against Congress leader and industrialist Naveen Jindal in a case pertaining to irregularities in the allocation of a Jharkhand coal block.
Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) flagged off the first consignment of rails for Indian Railways from its Raigarh plant in Chhattisgarh, according to a company official.
Attorney General K K Venugopal told a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra that there is no judgment which says that affluent people of the SC/ST community can be denied quota benefits by applying creamy layer concept.